The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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Album: Soulless
If there were tougher punishments for crimes in sport, perhaps the sports world would one day have true heroes, and sports could be enjoyed as a positive activity that brings out the best in people, rather than a soulless activity that just looks ... A large tract house need not be a soulless box. Home-accessories designer Randal Weeks of Aidan Gray Home tells how to infuse new spaces with character and create the look of a home assembled lovingly over time. His suggestions ... It also explains how, as a fan, you're inevitably resisting the pull between being a cranky purist and a soulless commercial fan who welcomes in-game updates on Jessica Simpson's wardrobe and horrific plugs from (insert minor network star here) about ... ... or flipping open your stupid cellphone, maybe — to show you're still master of this universe. Not to mention a practiced liar. If the sight and sound of the Skagit lesser snow-goose flock taking flight doesn't get your juices flowing, you're soulless ... In hindsight the whole scenario makes perfect sense, given the herd of boorish, angry and often soulless male authority figures that permeated the Kids' comedic universe. Then there was all the screwed up teens. Any psychoanalyst could probably make a ... If you text message, chances are that, at one point or another, you have felt guilt about it. Maybe it’s the driving hazard — or the soulless communication. The increased risk of carpal tunnel syndrome, the higher phone bill, the substandard ... Another brilliant juxtaposition comes here, as Temple cuts between the early Clash playing a song in a rowdy club and the late, world-famous Clash playing the same song in a soulless arena. It's the third act of Strummer's life that, while the ... After working on the project for 12 years, Stanley Kubrick handed over this twist on the Pinocchio tale to Steven Spielberg. The end result was a curiosity – a technically impressive yet oddly soulless hybrid of their directing styles. The Sixth ... The nagging suspicion that what's about to unfold at Newcastle will be an ersatz, soulless and much less spectacular version of events which happened decades ago just won't go away, will it? 25 min: Havant & Waterlooville have gone 3-0 up against ... And what about "There Will Be Blood," Paul Thomas Anderson's staggeringly audacious epic about a soulless oil man? It appeared on dozens of end-of-the-year "best" lists throughout the country and has once again placed the formidable acting talents of ...
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